On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Tim T. wrote: > I'm trying to develop a patch application for a client. This client is > ... > Also, does anybody have any suggestions for a good patch strategy ? > (Application consists of a number of packages, some of which contain a large > number of files. How do I minimize the amount of data I need to push to a > remote machine, over a very expensive link ?) Deltarpm is the way Fedora solved this problem. See if you can use that. http://gitorious.org/deltarpm/deltarpm "makedeltarpm oldrpm newrpm deltarpm" takes 2 rpms, and creates a drpm with the differences. "applydeltarpm -r oldrpm deltarpm newrpm" creates a standard rpm from the previous version (either a copy of the old rpm or the installed data). -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@xxxxxxxx> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
